Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin Erdmann looks like anything but a rebel lawyer. His hair is close-cut, his collar white and button-down, his tie narrow, his suit oldfashioned. Handling documents with nicotine-stained fingers and chain-smoking Lucky Strikes, Erdmann, 57, could pass for a run-of-the-mill judicial factotum behind...
Slightly stooped, bald, armed with a cane, the granitic old man still gets up early every morning for an hour of prayer and meditation. At his age, any man would have much to reflect on. He has more than most. Perhaps he remembers the wartime meetings with Roosevelt and Churchill...
A three-judge federal court in Philadelphia this month ordered Pennsylvania to assure an education for all retarded children in the state. Further, the court set a 90-day deadline for the state to identify every retarded child denied a public education, and it gave educational authorities until Sept. 1...
The first week of South Viet Nam's presidential election campaign started off quietly enough. Supporters of President Nguyen Van Thieu, now the sole candidate in the Oct. 3 elections, blanketed the country with tens of thousands of posters advertising his "democracy slate." The President himself was in an...
Wealthy Europeans and Americans built tens of thousands of fancy villas along the 200-mile coastline between Marseille and the Italian border, turning much of the Riviera into a private playground. To keep out trespassers, these "beach barons" erected high fences, stone walls and barbed wire, often patrolled by vicious...